Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
India has rolled out the first indigenously upgraded Hawk Mk132 trainer aircraft, Hawk-i, which will help provide improved situational awareness and training capability.
Defense and Space

As the U.S. Air Forces presses ahead with development of a next-generation nuclear missile, a new report says the service must retain the capability of adding multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, or MIRVs, if the strategic balance shifts.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
A new $312 million pretax charge against earnings for the U.S. Air Force KC-46A aerial refueling tanker program is not a material concern, prime contractor Boeing’s leaders said Jan. 25.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
With Britain set to receive its first of nine Boeing P-8 Poseidons in 2019, it will be the first time the two countries have operated the same maritime patrol aircraft since the 1950s.
Defense and Space

Raytheon and its partner, Italian defense company Leonardo, are exiting the increasingly crowded competition to build the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation T-X trainer, citing challenges reaching a “business agreement.
Defense and Space

Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services has launched an internal research and development effort to create a cyberintrusion detection system to be included in the cockpits of military and civil aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
India has decided to buy approximately 57 fighters to operate from its aircraft carriers.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) formally inducted the first Boeing F-15SA (Saudi Advanced) Eagles into its inventory during a ceremony in Riyadh on Jan. 25.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The UK defense ministry has disposed of its inventory of its Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missiles, which had been used to suppress and destroy enemy air defenses.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
Indonesian approval of funding for transport aircraft is a step toward a planned purchase of A400M Atlases, but will not result in an immediate order.
Defense and Space

An international array of teams remain in the running for top money in the race to the Moon’s surface in the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize competition.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Lockheed Martin Chairman, President, and CEO Marillyn Hewson said Jan. 24 that she has used her meetings with new U.S. President Donald Trump to explain what the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter prime contractor already is doing to help lower costs on the Pentagon’s largest-ever acquisition effort.
Defense and Space

The Trump administration’s first long-range defense spending plan is a “critical opportunity” to signal U.S. strength, members of three leading Washington think tanks say.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus Safran Launchers CEO Alain Charmeau has fleshed out a call to coordinate and guarantee an annual number of satellite launches using the Ariane 6 and Vega C.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
Analysts are seeking to temper any expectations of increased defense spending fueled by Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) white paper that would add billions. “It’s not Christmas in July,” one panelist said.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
As Leidos' defense group president departs, the company may further reorganize in the wake of a major acquisition last year.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
India has signed an agreement with Japan to enhance cooperation in space exploration.
Defense and Space

Raytheon’s Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) plant in Huntsville, Alabama, has secured its fourth full-rate production contract after an eventful 2016.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
John Grunsfeld—NASA’s former associate administrator for science, Hubble Space Telescope astronaut repair specialist and astrophysicist—has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the National Space Trophy.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The British government has declined to confirm or deny newspaper reports that the test of an unarmed Trident submarine-launched missile went awry, resulting in the weapon’s self-destruction off the Florida coast in June 2016.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
“Mars is a bridge too far,” counsels Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Defense and Space

President Donald Trump was spared heavy rain when he took the oath of office on Jan. 20, but poor weather thwarted what would have been the first military flyover for a presidential inauguration in 68 years.
Defense and Space

The University of Colorado (CU) Boulder is taking advantage of a large gift and an ambitious new dean of engineering to help focus the state’s aerospace industry as a growing U.S. center for spaceflight innovation.
Workforce

Despite Donald Trump’s vocal battering of two top Norwegian priorities, NATO and the F-35, Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide expects the newly minted U.S. president to continue longstanding support for both.
Defense and Space

By Jens Flottau
Safran Group and Zodiac Aerospace entered into exclusive negotiations for an acquisition of Zodiac by Safran, the companies said on Jan. 19.
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